Psychological counseling
Speech therapy
Ambulances
Psychological counseling
Center of Children´s Hearing Tamtam provides also a psychological counseling. It is procured by Special psychological counseling.
Target group is represented especially by adults with various types of hearing impairments and their closed ones. Counseling is also provided for parents of children with hearing impairment, for children themselves and for adolescents.
Psychological counseling is provided in these areas:
- individual counseling, individual psychotherapy;
- partner and family counseling;
- psychological diagnostics, elaboration of expert opinion for other professionals;
- crisis intervention;
- group psychotherapy;
- methodological work;
- contact services – providing relevant contacts of other professionals (such as neurologists, psychiatrists, etc.);
- cooperation with other professionals.
This service is provided by Mgr. Marie Holyanska – psychologist and psychotherapist.
The service is provided mainly as an ambulatory service. It is possible to arrange also a Skype call, when needed it is also possible to arrange a field consult (in these cases specific conditions are settled individually).
The price list of the service
First consult – 200 CZK
Any other consult – 50 CZK
Check up and medical record – 400 CZK
During a first consult the clients are familiarized with the conditions of this service and they also sign informed consent.
The length of the consult is usually 60 minutes. Consults can be held in various types of communication means; it depends on the preference of the client. It is also preferred to held the consult only in the presence of the counsellor and the client.
The psychologist is bound to remain discrete, no information about the client is shared. There are some exceptions, such as jeopardy of a minor, etc. In these cases, the obligation to notify is superior to the confidentiality. The ethics of psychological counseling is substantiated by the Ethical Codex of Českomoravská psychologická společnost.
Contact:
E-mail: 3hyIR.icW7c--ZclWfkmb
Speech Therapy
The Tamtam Centre for Children's Hearing also provides speech therapy as part of a complex of professional counselling services. Speech therapy care is provided by a clinical speech therapist.
Speech therapy services:
- Vocabulary practice (practice is carried out according to individual topics and taking into account the individual needs and abilities of the child, using illustrative pictures and toys),
- breathing exercises - training in correct breathing, which is the basis for correct voice production,
- phonation exercises - voice exercises, voice elicitation by touch, echoing and special toys,
speech motor exercises, - eliciting vowels, syllables, words and sentences,
- practicing the grammatical structures of speech,
- rhythmization,
- auditory exercises - reacting to sounds, distinguishing them and then understanding spoken speech,
- fine motor and graphomotor exercises,
- visual perception exercises,
- the development of reading and writing in school children.
All exercises are carried out in cooperation with parents. Without this cooperation, speech therapy would not be successful, because the exercises should be carried out every day - in short time intervals and more often. Parents are an integral part of the therapy. Without the cooperation of the family, the care cannot be such as to help use all the child's abilities and aptitudes.
Speech therapy care is provided on the recommendation of a district doctor or specialist - phoniatrist, neurologist, etc. and is covered by insurance companies:
VZP (General Health Insurance Company)
VOZP (Military Health Insurance Company)
ČPZP (Czech Industrial Health Insurance Company)
ZPŠ (Škoda Employee Insurance Company)
Visiting hours:
Tuesday 9:00-17:00
Appointments required.
Contact:
Mgr. Mgr. Petra Kopecká
Tel.: 235 517 313 (switchboard)
E-mail: logopetra@seznam.cz
Specific ambulatory counseling
Our ambulatory counseling offers a complex of counseling in these areas: special education, psychology, speech therapy, audiology or hearing disabilities counseling. These services are provided for families with children with hearing impairment, for families with children with multiple disabilities (whereas one of those disabilities is hearing disability), for CODA (children of a deaf adult), for children or adults with impaired communication capabilities or for people with needs any area of communication with their closed ones.
These consults are usually one-time consults that should help to orientate in a specific situation and also, they should provide some kind of guidance – how to take the next step. It is of course also possible to cooperate on a regular base.
We can also offer you an indicative audiological checkup.
In case you are interested in any of our services do not hesitate to contact us:
Phone number +420 605 100 400
E-mail: poradna@tamtam.cz
In case you do not live in Prague or nearby and it is difficult for you to visit us, we can also offer you consults through videocalls.
Our team
Bc. Kateřina Shonová – social worker – special educator
PhDr. Ing. Iva Jungwirthová – special educator, psychologist
Mgr. Marie Holyanska – psychologist